Mexico. NexTV Series 2016, the sixth edition of the event on the future of TV, will bring together on October 4 and 5 at the Hotel Presidente in Mexico City the leaders of the most important media and TV groups in the country, along with the new generation of VOD OTTs, web TV companies and the new Internet Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) that are attracting new audiences of video in Mexico and in the world.
The conference will unite panelists from Sky (Televisa), Dish, TV Azteca and Axtel with new web TV companies such as Uno TV (Telmex), OTTs such as Cineclick (Cinépolis), Filmin Latino or Crunchyroll (AT&T, Chermin Group), Verizon Digital Media, traditional media that are migrating to online video such as Multimedios Television, MVS, El Universal and Excelsior TV, along with YouTube and the MCNs that are making a rage on their channels such as Mitú and 2btube. To register you have to enter www.nextvseriesmexico.com.
The event is organized by Dataxis, the intelligence company on the TV market in Latin America. According to Dataxis, Mexico is surpassing 19 million TV subscribers in 2016 and will pass 22 million in 2021. This year it will also reach almost six and a half million OTT VOD accounts (mainly Netflix, Clarovideo and Blim) and will reach just under 11 million in 2021.
The most popular YouTube channels, meanwhile, are surpassing 15 million subscribers in the country and totaling more than two billion views each. You Tube channel networks (MCNs) are capturing the audience of traditional TV and the NexTV Series Mexico 2016 conference will discuss what this scenario will look like in the future.
In the first panel "Film and TV Producers", the CEOs of AG Studios, Sula Films and Z Grupo Creativo will discuss how to negotiate with Netflix and the rest of the VOD OTT. Pay-TV operators and programmers will then discuss how to transform to "attract the consumer of the future." In the panel of free Internet TV and MCNs, YouTube, TV Azteca, Uno TV and Mitú will explain the online video business models that are coming to market.
The new DTT channels: Multimedios, Excelsior TV, C7 Jalisco, Canal 44 de Guadalajara will exhibit their migration strategies towards digital TV and multiscreen transmissions via streaming. Radio groups such as MVS and newspapers such as El Universal or El Porvenir will analyze the transformation of the media with the incorporation of video on the Internet. And new OTTs like Crunchyroll, Cinema Uno, Cineclick and Claro Sports will discuss strategies to compete with Netflix.
